We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDWe are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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